The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour; 1 And by oath of the moon when it follows the sun 2 Consider the day as it reveals the world, 3 and the night as it veils it darkly! 4 By the heaven and That which built it 5 and by the earth and how He spread it, 6 by the soul and Who shaped it 7 And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;- 8 Indeed successful is the one who made it pure. 9 and he who corrupts it is sure to fail. 10 The Thamud (people) rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrong-doing, 11 when the most wretched of them uprose, 12 then the Messenger of God said to them, 'The She-camel of God; let her drink!' 13 In response they belied him, and hamstrung the she camel – so Allah put ruin over them because of their sins and flattened their dwellings. 14 He does not fear the result (of their destruction). 15